Pompous Ass Syndrome

Pumpkin Moon!

(As always, this got too long! Have better things to do than wade through all of this?! No problem! Here’s the payoff!)

You know what it is. We have *all* been there. We’ve not only been victims of it, we’ve had it ourselves!

Pompous Ass Syndrome (PAS) is not a gift, it’s a curse, not only for the person who has it, but for the people who must have contact with them. First year law students come immediately to mind. One year in law school and they know it all and *love* to educate not only their fellow students, but anyone they know about how expert they’ve magically become. Yes, they must do two more years (three if they’re in a night program), to actually get a degree, but at this point that’s just wasted time. They’re ready to argue their first capital case . . . [Yes! There’s more!]

How Monica Uses Snow Days

Monica Schirmer Eshelman has sent in her abstract of the 1892 deaths mentioned in the St. Joseph Missouri Herald, Gazette and Daily News. More snow days for Monica, please! 🙂

1892 Death Notices in the St. Joseph, Missouri Herald, Gazette and Daily News

Potter’s Field (The County Cemetery)

Monica finds the neetest stuff while she’s digging through those old newspapers for the death notices. She sent this on today. If you’re feeling frisky, here’s the original clipping.

. . . [Yes! There’s more!]

1906 Death Notices in the Gazette and News-Press

Monica Schirmer Eshelman has sent in her abstract of the 1906 deaths mentioned in the St. Joseph Gazette and the St. Joseph News-Press. She has since commenced working on 1905 which should arrive soon, considering her dedication!

1906 Death Notices in the Gazette and News-Press

1893 Death Notices in the St. Joseph, Missouri Herald, Gazette and Daily News

Monica Schirmer Eshelman has sent in her abstract of the 1893 deaths mentioned in the St. Joseph Missouri Herald, Gazette and Daily News. I’m amazed at how quickly she’s finishing these, as we all know how difficult these old newspapers can be to read!

1893 Death Notices in the St. Joseph, Missouri Herald, Gazette and Daily News

RootsMagic

In my effort to explore software alternatives, I gave RootsMagic a try. They offer RootsMagic Essentials for free, so why not? I also found review of v.6 and digging around more on that site, I learned that Tamura Jones actually recommends RootsMagic over Legacy. There are a lot of geek reasons for this — I won’t pretend to have understood a lot of the techy talk on that site — but the recommendation is a good place to start.

“RootsMagic Essentials is a free genealogy program that contains many core features from the award-winning RootsMagic family tree software. Downloading RootsMagic Essentials is absolutely free and is the easiest way to start tracing your family tree!”

The key word there is “start.” Don’t try this at home if you have already invested years in your genealogy database.

My first mistake was forgetting the distinction between RootsMagic . . . [Yes! There’s more!]